Yes Boot, as folks age, the horizon changes.
Problem is, some folks saw it coming 
Perhaps it’s me absorbing it more now…Having experienced life and realising just what the hell am I watching…Never seemed to notice it so much before. You have a good memory for the macabre Boot…
I just wish Edna and Minnie were back sitting in the snug, gripping their handbags and tweaking their hair nets. Well, Edna’s.
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I’ve just been watching some old ones with a young Kev, Ashley, and the Duckworths, Jack and Vera. The characters seemed a lot more believable and honest with not much underlying subterfuge. Lets have more people with morals and standards…A bit more like the ‘Waltons’ now that was a feel good series. They were poor but honest and caring.
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If anyone on the street says “Trust me” you just know they are being dishonest and telling porkies…The same goes for “I promise” when things are totally out of their control…
Good to see Carl is going to bog off to Berlin…What a scrote!
I can’t see Tod actually run a half marathon, unless it’s in 2027…
And Theo is too muscley for long distance running, I used to leave guys like him floundering in the gutter…Pah!
What can I say about Tracey… 
…She only says what we were all thinking anyway.
The girl can take a punch…
I think the early episodes of Corrie probably left an impression on my young mind because it was the only TV I ever saw when I was growing up. We never had a TV at home and my Mum used to go to her friend’s house at the end of the road to watch Corrie. As I was too young to be left at home with the other kids, she used to take me with her.
It felt to me like it was real life and this stuff was really happening - and some of it was quite dark and scary! I vividly remember the night the car crash happened when Elsie Tanner’s lover had a heart attack while he was driving her home. I remember he was dead at the wheel and Elsie’s forehead was bleeding when she got out of the car and ran away from the scene of the crash.
Coincidentally, there was a real car crash that same night, at the street roundabout just a short way up the road from my Mum’s friend’s house. When I was walking to school the next morning, I passed the crash site. The vehicles had been taken away but there was broken glass on the road and my friend and I saw a blood stained hanky at the side of the road. I thought that must be where the Corrie crash had happened and the hanky must be Elsie Tanner’s!
I worried about whether I should tell anyone about the hanky cos it might be evidence against Elsie! 
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You were at a very impressionable age Boot, that’s why things are easier to learn when you are young. I worry about the kids today with access to the world wide web, and TV material not suitable for young minds. We were only at the beginning of all the propaganda from the media and now they are born into the thick of it and the establishment knows how to use it too…The first job is to make sure everyone is ‘connected’ and needs a smartphone.
You know something Foxy, sometimes you talk alot of sense. I’m impressed.
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Steady on Morty, you’ll damage my reputation…
But I like your comments…
Let me give you a big porky hug…
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Hi
My mum was an extra on Corrie, Last of the Summer Wine and some others for years.
She was hugged by Vera Duckworth in the Rovers on new years eve in one episode.
She loved being an extra, said they had great fun on the set and that the actors were lovely people,not at all arrogant or stand offish.
She was born and raised on a very similar street in Chadderton, only moving to Yorkshire after marrying my Dad and having me and my brother.
I can still remember what it was like living there, with the mills, the ladies in pinafores and hair nets and thick stockings, the washing hanging out across the streets on Mondays and the corner shops.
The old Corrie was very realistic and true to the area, the more recent years are not realistic to the area.
The Mills are now closed and many derelict, high unemployment and people on benefits.
There is no pride in the area, it is not kept clean and tidy by the locals.
I no longer watch it, but if I did
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@OldGreyFox
Ooo…errr, Foxy - are you still following the Theo / Todd story or have you given up Corrie altogether now?
I’m still watching but it is getting very harrowing to watch Theo abusing Todd by gaslighting and physical abuse now. I just want Theo to get his comeuppance now!
I’ve started shouting at the TV, telling Todd to walk out of that flat and run for it!
He should go and stay with his old friend Bethany, who lives with a Copper - but Theo is already working on splitting Todd away from Bethany too.
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Oops! I meant Sarah, not her daughter Bethany - I keep getting them mixed up because Sarah still looks so young!
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I knew what you meant Boot. And yes, I’m sticking with it (although I don’t know why) I suppose it’s easy for us to say about Tod either leaving Theo or growing a pair, but it does go on in real life, especially with domestic violence on women.
Tod needs to realise that Theo is a dangerous bloke and this is not going to end well for Tod, but we are in the script writers hands…
I’m also annoyed with the love triangle of Carla, Lisa and Becky. Lisa needs to wake up and smell the coffee because Becky is playing her like a Stradivarius, and I think she has connections to the mob that she claims that she is so frightened of. It’s probably some of her scally friends that have mugged Costello…I think Kit is on the case and suspects all is not what it seems.
I’m not warming to the family that has taken over the Rovers (apart from Eva) especially the mother and the two sons. They are living up to the usual arrogant and devious young person that seem to frequent the cobbles…
The sexual abuse that Sally reckons happened to Tim when he was just a 16 year old seems to have died a death now, thank goodness. Unless they’re saving it for later…
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OGF, I agree with you on the story lines, and characters, you mention. I just cannot cannot take to Pauline McGlyn in this role. Or the two males. Eva is ok, yes.
Becky needs to do one, together with her equally annoying daughter.
Not watched the last episode yet, that will be later today. I just know I will FF the Theo/Todd abuse.
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Yes, I forgot about the annoying daughter Jazzi, she’s not even Lisa’s daughter and yet she is so in cahoots with Becky against Carla. I was hoping that Carla would have given Becky a slap when they had the altercation last week…But what happens…Carla ends up apologising for getting it wrong… 
Love triangles rarely work in my experience…
WHAT!..
I am led to believe that Lisa’s egg was implanted into Becky, so in effect she is the biological daughter of both of them. Nothing said about the father.
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Yes, Betsy is the biological daughter of Lisa; she is not Becky’s biological daughter but Becky is Betsy’s legal Mother because she gave birth to her.
Lisa was the “egg donor” and Becky was the “gestational carrier” , so they were both invested in bringing her into the world.
The way things are going, I’m wondering if Betsy and Becky will end up leaving the Street - and maybe Lisa too - the other possibility I’ve been pondering is whether Betsy and Lisa stay in the Street and the sperm donor (Betsy’s biological Father) may turn up???
I don’t think we’ve had one of those stories about “anonymous sperm donors” turning up or being found in Corrie yet and it is something that is happening more often in real life nowadays.
That Becky seems a real piece of work and so does Costello - there’s bound to be some nail-biting scenes involving them somewhere along the line and maybe the policeman Kit, who seems to be taking an interest?
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What! The mob! What has become of my beloved old Corrie … gaslighting, sperm donors, love triangles and abuse … it all sounds so stressful to watch.
I thought Phelan of many years back was bad enough and that Bradley bloke who got run over by a tram at Blackpool …
Corrie used to be the humorous one and it was Eastenders that was the depressing darker side of life.
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Well, George often provides a bit of light relief - although, he is the Undertaker! 
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